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Now and Then, on March 5.
The record consists of nine covers of '60s and '70s R&B classics - with a strong emphasis on Motown and Philly soul - and five originals. The first single is a take on the Five Stairsteps' 1970 Top 10 hit "O-o-h Child."
You can hear it below.
The 10-piece band, augmented by three string and two horn players, also offers interpretations of songs made famous by Al Green ("Let's Stay Together"), the Temptations ("Just My Imagination [Running Away With Me]" and the Spinners ("Could It Be I'm Falling in Love").
“Between us doing some great Soul Station shows and starting the album, I started to think that neither the band or the music we love should depend only on the past, so I started writing with the goal of seamlessly taking songs into the present," Stanley said in a press release. "From what a lot of people I respect have told me, that mission was accomplished.”
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